Data in Depth: Web 3-D Technologies Provide New Approaches to the Presentation of Course Content

ECU Author/Contributor (non-ECU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)

Charles J. Jr. Lesko (Creator)

John L. Pickard (Creator)

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East Carolina University (ECU )

Web Site: http://www.ecu.edu/lib/

Abstract: For nearly two decades the Web has provided the lassroom with vast ever-expanding volumes of browseraccessible nformation. As the web has evolved so too has ur desire to become more involved with the process of ontent-creation and content-sharing. Now new web-based echnologies look to provide smarter more meaningful ontent and present that content with a new level of depth nd interactivity. No longer are faculty and students rowsing for information that is largely static; instead these sers are interacting through their three-dimensional (3-D) roxies (their avatars) and are querying applications semantic web agents) soliciting them to collect filter verify orrelate and present answers to their queries. Yet all of his capability is not without potential challenges. here is an evolving need for faculty and students to find nd build out new structure in their 3-D virtual urroundings that visually enables their content making it ore palatable to the user while presenting it in a 3-D ormat verses the typical 2-D format that has been the ainstay for the past two decades. With the maturation of irtual world (3-D Web) and semantic web technologies the eb-based content available in the classroom increases xponentially and takes on a new look. Following a brief verview of these two technologies and their overall impact n the classroom this article presents several practical pproaches for presenting course content in 3-D Web nvironments based on recent implementation efforts. In- orld lectures and lab assignments project team briefing essions student mentoring activities and open conference orums are just a few of the areas discussed. Further iscussions also focus on setup and future evaluation studies lanned in the near-term to further evaluate course content resentation techniques.

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Lesko C. J. and Pickard J. L. (2010). Data in Depth: Web 3-D Technologies Provide New Approaches to the Presentation of Course Content. Journal of Online Engineering Education Volume 1 Number 2 Article 3 pp. 1-6.

Language: English

Date: 2012

Keywords

3-D web, Collaboration, Communications, Content delivery, Virtual worlds

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